Dave Chappelle Meets with ‘SNL’ Writers/Staff, Rep Denies Boycott Report

Dave Chappelle‘s beginning his third day of conferences with ‘SNL’ forged and writers, and his camp says there’s been zero speak of an alleged boycott associated to Dave’s points with the transgender neighborhood.

DC is internet hosting ‘SNL’ this weekend — his first time since 2020, and for the reason that launch of his controversial Netflix particular “The Closer” … which sparked protests and far debate over jokes many individuals felt had been transphobic.

The potential subject at 30 Rock this week is ‘SNL’ now has its first nonbinary forged member, Molly Kearney, and at the very least one author who’s transgender.

According to Page Six, the present’s writers are boycotting, however a rep for Dave tells TMZ … Dave’s first 2 conferences with the employees have been full, and everybody’s pitching sketch concepts as they usually do.

One of the writers, Celeste Yim, reportedly posted an Instagram story saying, “I’m trans and non-binary. I exploit they/them pronouns. Transphobia is homicide and it must be condemned.”

Their publish stated nothing a couple of boycott. It’s unclear if Celeste has been within the employees conferences with Dave this week. We’ve reached out to NBC for remark.

This will probably be Chappelle’s third time internet hosting. He beforehand hosted in 2020 and in 2016, which was memorable for being the primary present after the election of Donald Trump.